Highlights
André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 President:
Agriculture is absolutely central to combating climate change.
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2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer
The Year will spotlight the essential roles women play across agrifood systems, from production to trade, while often going unrecognized. Women farmers are central to food security, nutrition and economic resilience.
Stories
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Events
Committee on World Food Security
Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (Italy), Hybrid Event, 22/10/2025
Background
School Meals Programmes are key strategies to address food insecurity and malnutrition, especially among school-age children and adolescents. Despite global investments of nearly USD 50 billion, challenges persist.
Recent estimates from SOFI 2025 show global hunger declined from 8.5% in 2023 to 8.2% in 2024, mainly due to progress in Asia and South America, while it continues to rise in Africa and Western Asia. Food insecurity also decreased gradually, reaching 28% of the global population in 2024, while the cost of a healthy diet rose by 3.7% in 2024, reaching 4.46 PPP dollars per person per day.
Despite this increase, the number of people unable to afford such a diet dropped to 2.6 billion. Obesity continues to rise worldwide, affecting 15.8% of adults in 2022, up from 12.1% in 2012. Child overweight remained stable globally at 5.5% in 2024, with LAC showing the highest levels and increases in both indicators.
Sustainable financing, knowledge, and locally engaged partnerships are essential to ensure quality, inclusion, equity, and long-term impact. For instance, the Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES), led by Brazil-FAO cooperation, supports 18 LAC countries to enhance their SFP through dialogue, policy development, nutrition standards and public procurement from family farming. While financing is one key component, knowledge and understanding of the enabling environment, nutrition, local food preferences and local partnership are also pivotal for scaling up the programmes.
The School Meals Coalition, with over 100 members, fosters global collaboration to ensure every child receives a healthy school meal by 2030. Its Sustainable Financing Initiative builds evidence and provides technical assistance to boost domestic investment.
Join us online Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 08:30 (UTC+2) for this event aimed at sharing best practices with regards to financing and collaboration as well as discussing enabling environments with a child-centered approach. The dialogue will highlight how school meals can become a driver of agrifood resilience, and access to affordable healthy diets.
Register and join us online here
For more information, visit the Side Events section of the 53 Session Committee on World Food Security.
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Contact
Communicator for the Regional Better Nutrition Priority
FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional Representative
Mr. Rene Orellana Halkyer was appointed by the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, as Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, effective 1 November 2025.
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Key Documents
Publications
How to use antibiotics effectively and responsibly in poultry production - for the sake of human and animal health
2024
The use of antibiotics and thus the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be reduced by adopting the right husbandry practices. This publication provides practical tips to the livestock producer aiming at improving animal health and hence the reduced use of antibiotics
FAO's four priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean
In depth
80th Anniversary of the FAO
FAO celebrates 80 years of working for a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable future for all, leaving no one behind.
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38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean
18 to 21 March, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
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Spain - FAO Program for Latin America and the Caribbean
Ibero-American and Caribbean Cooperation for #FoodFirst and Sustainable Development
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Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program
Alliance for the promotion of sustainable development and food security in the region
Mesoamérica Hunger-Free AMEXCID-FAO
Promoting public policies and innovative solutions for food security and sustainable rural development.
We are all connected
how our health is linked to that of animals, plants and the environment.
FAO Campus
Courses of self-study, semi face-to-face and virtual with tutor.
Central American Dry Corridor
Stories and facts about this "land of opportunities" in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Parliamentary front against hunger
More than 400 legislators work with FAO, the Spanish Cooperation and AMEXCID
Global
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
Discover the systems in Latin America globally recognized as agricultural heritage.
One Country One Priority Product
Global action on green development.
World Food Day
Water is life, water is food. October 16, 2023. Leave no one behind.
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Gender Equality
Empowering women in food and agriculture.
Global School Feeding Platform
Technical resources for experts and practitioners.
Data on food and agriculture
Free access to data from more than 245 countries.
Multimedia
FAO Brief – 7 July 2025
01/07/2025
In this episode of the FAO Brief: FAO scales up emergency seed distribution in Sudan; a new FAO report on the status of youth in agrifood systems; and FAO’s Conference held in Rome.